Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin O'Hara

Due to the unique strategic fit between the two companies and Level 3's past integration experience, we remain confident in our ability to successfully combine the businesses and conclude a smooth transition for customers. We commenced integration planning immediately after signing the definitive agreement in October, and we believe we are well positioned for a smooth integration process in keeping with our projected schedule.

Karen Neuburger

Breast cancer prevention is a cause that is near and dear to my heart and I am thrilled that our company has been at the forefront of the pink movement, ... In addition to raising money, I am hopeful that this line of products will continue to bring comfort to those who are currently battling breast cancer or those who have fought the battle and won. The longer these products are available in the market, the greater is our ability to make a difference in the lives of breast cancer patients and their families.

Sarah Harrison

Britain has a Terrorism Act, which has within it a portion called Schedule 7, which is quite unique. What it is is it gives officials the ability to detain people at the border as they go in or out or even transit through the country.

Flip Saunders

Ben did as good a job as you can on Shaq when you play him one-on-one. His defensive presence gave us the ability to shut down some of their other people.

Allen Benson

Everything would be convoyed safely, ... We've been moving this kind of material around country for a very long time, and we're confident in our ability to safely transport this material.

Derek Fisher

Everybody just looks at his scoring, but as he's developed into that player he is now, a lot of it is just his presence. That helps our team. It gives us energy and gives us aggressiveness, gives us the ability to do certain things out on the floor.

Anne Hathaway

I look around at my peers, and I'm so blown away by their talent and their beauty and their cool style, as well as their ability to be an actress and be a movie star and be good at it. I mean, they're so good, and we're all trying to get the same parts.

Blake Lively

I think I'm very much an entrepreneur, but I know I have the ability to start a company in a lot of ways than other people who are more qualified because I have this existing brand as an actress.

Bryan Volpenhein

I think I have experience in rowing, and that has given me some ability to go about racing. I'm lucky genetically. I have a good VO2 max - I can hold a lot of air in my lungs - and that definitely helps.

Bobby Keys

You got to realize that the vision, the image, according to 1964 U.S. rock and roll standards, was mohair suit and tie, and nicey-nicey ol' boy next door.

Mark Eaton

We feel like we're in a pretty good spot right now, but we still want to work our way up. There's still almost a third of the season left to play and there's a lot of teams lumped together so we know that we can't afford any long stretch of losses or we could be on the outside looking in.

Takashi Murakami

My parents came from the Kyushu Island in the Southern part of Japan to find work in Tokyo. So we could only afford to live downtown, in a low-income area. It was just by the river, and whenever a typhoon came around, we were under water up to, like, here. That's the kind of place we lived in.

Tammy Blanchard

The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.

Virginia Postrel

Religion, art, and science flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much opportunity for grand gestures. It has little room for martyrs. But life is not supposed to be about dying well. It is about living well.

Timothy Murphy

Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare options can literally make the difference between life or death; and play a decisive role in whether a family or employer can afford healthcare.

Alexa Von Tobel

The most common reason new mothers return to work sooner than they'd like to is because they can't afford to go without their salaries any longer.

Alexa Von Tobel

When you have a lot of money, there's so many places you can go to manage your money. But when you don't have money, mathematically you actually need a financial plan more. You can't really afford to make mistakes. So why is this such a luxury product?

Ban Ki-moon

When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.

Dennis Lyle

We spoke with her agent, explained what we envisioned for the role and waited to find out if she might be interested. Her agent came back with an offer. I don't remember exactly what it was now, but I know our budget couldn't afford it. He asked what we could offer, and we made our offer.

Bobby Thomson

I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945.

Mike Conner

We chose Hooters Air to offer service to the Florida markets because they showed a significant interest in providing service from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport, and Orlando fit nicely into the Hooters Air existing route structure. Hooters was willing to expand the service from Orlando to include other Florida destinations, and the airport was able to easily target market the entire Hooters package of leisure destinations to Florida. At the time the decision was made regarding Hooters Air, it looked like a very promising airline with a unique marketing and service niche.

Erik Olson

We're very concerned about the level of air pollutants in much of the city. We're concerned about wide-scale repopulation of the city.

Erik Olson

We're very concerned about the level of air pollutants in much of the city, ... We're concerned about wide-scale repopulation of the city.

Mike Boyd

US Air has still got some severe revenue problems, ... Unlike say Northwest, who only had one or two areas of cost problems . . . US Air has a lot of them.

Christopher Shays

You gotta be a fool, frankly, to go on New Year's night to Times Square, ... I mean, I can't understand why people do that. Just one hand grenade thrown in the air and people panicking. It's just too tempting a target.

Gus Frerotte

You got a guy 6-5 and his arms reach about 11 feet, you just have to give him a chance to make play and go up and take the ball. When you can just drop back there and take like three or four hitches and then throw it about 60 in the air to Randy, what could be better?

Gerry Harvey

You get that air of satisfaction from achievement. It makes you feel good. We are only here for a very short time, and so you're crazy if you don't go out and try to milk it to the greatest extent you can.

Charles Davidson

You get a kite, get it up in the air and then sit back in that chair, and your blood pressure will drop. It's a great way to relax.

Ivan Johnson

The concept was not a concept that Cox created. We were assured this was fine. Certainly we're big boys, and we check out things. At this point, we're comfortable that no laws were broken.

John Gibbons

Ted (Lilly) has a bad back right now, something he felt the day after his last start (March 26). So we'll give him an extra day of rest and have Josh (Towers) start the second game and Lilly the third.

John Warren

Sarah pitched a pretty good game for her first outing. I'm happy with her. We had one bad inning and that cost us the game. Losing never changes. It still hurts as much as it did 12 years ago (when he started coaching).

Bill Maris

Say you have cancer - you have this broad thing we call cancer; we're going to irradiate you and pump this poisonous material into you and hope more of the bad stuff dies than the good. That is going to seem so medieval when we can fix it on a genetic level, and Foundation Medicine is the first step to diagnosing it on a genetic level.

Jack Pitney

Public opinion has a short list of bad guys, and the drug companies are on it. That can be hurtful to Proposition 78.

John M. Smith

Public consensus is clear that the sewage deal with the City of Sumas is a bad deal for Abbotsford and needs to be terminated as soon as possible,

Robert Mintz

Prosecutors have to show this was not simply bad management and bad judgment, but outright fraud. The only way to do that is with insiders.

Michael Sandler

Quite honestly, it's a good news, bad news situation. The bad news is our portfolio is not as cheap as it was at the beginning of the year.

Billy Donovan

Quite honestly, I'm not concerned about that. I'm more worried about making sure that this team understands what's a good shot, what's a bad shot, going into the season.

Scott Robinson

Quite frankly I was shocked at our performance on Wednesday. To play like we did Saturday then turn around and play that bad Wednesday was very surprising.

Charles Schumer

The states have a total of $80 billion in deficit spending. What are they going to have to do? Well, they are either going to have to cut programs, which will drag the economy down, or they are going to have to raise taxes, which will drag the economy down.

Gordon Sinclair

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

Barack Obama

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

Tom Hanks

All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day.

Mike White

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

Charles Figley

I guess in Jacksonville, residents are responding quite differently than South Florida residents because they have not been through a direct hit.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.

Tony Fabrizio

There is a growing, deep-seated discontentment and pessimism about the direction of the country.

Zhang Yimou

I'm very honored to become executive director of the ceremonies.

Chris Culos

We've always been friends before we were even in a band. It's a good-natured feeling, playing together on stage every night. To us, hanging out is playing a show. We can read each other and know each other's moods, and we know the direction we're headed. But we also know nothing is set in stone.

Marilyn Miller

Protesting in the face of a grieving family is unacceptable.

Heather Casey

I can't put into words what I felt when I saw the look on her face as she realized something she did with her hands got her something she wanted.

Todd Galloway

We have to get out there and get to the shooters and at least put a hand in their face to make it a tough shot.

Angie Martinez

The fact that they're taking this service away is disheartening.

Anton Corbijn

I'm not totally blind to the fact that I like people to see my work, but if it's not something I would enjoy seeing in a magazine, then I think I shouldn't be making it. I think that I don't represent only myself, I represent more people; I mean, if I like it, then I think more people will like it because I think I'm quite a normal guy.

Brad Gushue

I'm not too worried about the last two (Olympic failures), because we're not the same team, other than the fact it was Canada. It's four different individuals on the ice. So I'm not worried about the past.

Gary Bettman

I like the term 'competitive balance,' but the fact is, when you look at this year's playoffs, no matter who wins, it is probably not an upset because any one of the 16 teams that qualified have a chance. The regular season was exciting. There were 24 teams in the hunt until just about the end. Then, when you look at these series, the playoffs are off to a strong start.

Ann Beattie

I like the notion that people are appreciative of the fact that my work is sometimes allusive and that there is an interrelationship of the arts.

Eddie Trunk

I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.

Jim Tressel

I'm awfully proud of the fact that they have progressed, and that we have gotten better and we have gotten five wins.

Owen Fitzpatrick

If the number had been too strong, people would translate into the fact that the Fed would have to raise rates over a longer period of time.

Andy Bryant

I really think that we underestimated the fact that we would have a strong seasonal fourth quarter,

Paul Ballew

We're seeing a good, solid performance so far this year.

Michael Toudouze

We're finally putting San Antonio on the map. Nobody gets recruited down here because I guess we're too far south. But there's a lot of talent down here that people are finding out about now.

Peter Gallagher

I feel like I won the Lotto, as far as that show's concerned.

John Walsh

Houstonians want to help, ... Obviously, if you have vacant units and you want to rent them, there's a financial incentive.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Sathya Baba

It is very appropriate to infer that the Veda was given to the world only by persons endowed with all powers.

Demi Lovato

Aside from eating healthy and taking care of my body, I've always been passionate about skincare. It's an essential part of my daily regimen, which is why I decided to create my own skincare line, DEVONNE by Demi. When my skin is clean, I feel my best!

Sydney J. Harris

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.

George Jean Nathan

Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.

David Clark

We have to pour some chlorine in there to help sanitize it a bit. It's still another health issue for my daughter.

Ellen DeGeneres

If success is really dependent on someone liking you or not liking you, and you have to teeter on that kind of tightrope of how you're supposed to act and how you're supposed to look and who you are, it's just not a healthy way to live.

Brian Flynn

Without Manatee Rural Health, we could not make this work.

Martin Straka

If you play like that for 10 years in the NHL, there's no way you lose it in a year.

If you lose your job, your marriage and your mind all in one week, try to lose your mind first, because then the other stuff won't matter that much

Don Lemon

Think about just how much we'd get accomplished if we collectively viewed the people with whom we came into contact as just an American and not an American with a prefix.

John Bauer

Things have to be coordinated, ... We just can't have people running around doing what they want.

Jamie Johnson

The worst thing you can do in a relationship, and what's really unattractive about it, is that people begin to limit each other.

O. Henry

The whole program has turned a corner. If people didn't know us before, they know us now.

Jennifer Granholm

The will of the American people is stronger than any hurricane's wind,

Michael Garcia

The word isn't getting out so much, and if more people knew, they would campaign.

Jason Hagadone

These are tougher. We're in (the games) and we know we should win them. We've got the people and opportunities to win them. We just need to come through.

Duncan Hunter

These are the people who tried to kill us,

Alex Knott

These are the people that really get things done. There is a premium on them and there is a reason.

Shelby Lynne

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Michael Grade

I sometimes say that success just happens. That's not true. You have to make it happen. When I make up my mind to do something, I make sure it happens. You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Orison Swett Marden

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

Eric Schmidt

Even though Google may do very well, there will always be an alternative to what Google is doing, and people will always have the free choice... because there's no way for us to prevent them from exercising that choice. That is one of the key aspects of why the Internet has been so successful. No technologies can dominate.

Eli Manning

We don't mind working hard to be successful. We don't mind working to be at our best.

Charles Buxton

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Bobby Cox

This year is different, ... We have 11 for about four.

Ali MacGraw

If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.

Ali MacGraw

It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.

Ali Smith

We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.

Alexander Grothendieck

The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps...